PERSPECTIVES

One Tumultuous Year On, Indian Farmers’ Protest Keeps the Values of Secularism Alive

It’s been one year of seeing our farmers face police batons, water cannons, rainfall, scorching…

When She Held My Hand: How My Daughter and I Found Each Other in an Orphanage in Calcutta

The heat and humidity of Calcutta in April 1987 were overwhelming. I had not experienced…

Ode to a Broom: The Magic Whisk Whirls me Back to the Bountiful Bowers of Childhood

We lived in Chembur, a suburb of Bombay, the financial and Bollywood capital of India.…

American Debacle in Afghanistan: The What, When and How It All Unraveled

The Kabul airport massacre, the drone strike and the Taliban’s attacks on women’s rights are…

Examining My Brown Privilege: Confronting Otherness Through an Assumption About Homeownership

The sun shines magnificently on the wrap-around deck of our new home in Westchester, New…

An Aggrieved Parent’s Open Letter to Universities That Participated in the Conference on ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’

“Hindutva is inseparable without Hinduism. Arguments that Hindutva is not Hinduism are deeply dangerous”

Anatomy of Hinduphobia: Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference is Really about Silencing Hindus

Early in March of 2021, a group of Hindu students from across the U.S., Canada, and…

Will Taliban’s Triumph in Afghanistan Encourage Other Islamist Groups to Up the Ante in Kashmir?

Al-Qaeda praised the Taliban for their victory in Kabul on August 31, only hours after…

Dragon by the Tail: India Must Rethink its Strategic Policy to Counter China’s Push for Regional Influence

China and India have been at odds. Last year, skirmishes broke out between Indian and…

Be Brave, Little State: My Surreal Multicultural Life, Love and Marriage

This past August, I married the love of my life on the shores of Lake…

The Talibanization of Hindutva is Complete. Just Look at the Extremists’ Response to Academic Conference Participants

What was billed as one of the largest virtual conferences — cosponsored by the South…

Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference Proved That Intellectual Incompetence Begets Intellectual Violence

On September 11, 2021, the United States mourned and remembered victims of 9/11 on its…